Late last month, tenants at 265 Hawthorne Street lined up in the building lobby over the course of three days to sign paperwork that would turn them from renters into owners.
BK Reader was there when IMPACCT Brooklyn joined State Senator Jesse Hamilton and Councilman Matthieu Eugene to celebrate the end of a decades’ worth of work to ensure the tenants could stay in safe, affordable housing. The 71-unit building was officially converted into a co-op thanks to the tireless work of longtime tenant and now co-op president Eve-Lynn Williams.
“We are here because we have been working diligently with the hard-working people from IMPACCT Brooklyn, our tenants’ association and our Senator Jesse Hamilton and his staff,” said Williams. “They have worked tirelessly from home, work, church, in the middle of night and weekends.”
IMPACCT Brooklyn guided them through the administrative process to form the co-op and worked on the tenants’ behalf with the building’s management company to finalize the paperwork.
